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I'm facing a problem with Firefox.
I've got a page with a input text box element within a form .
On the Click of Submit , I would like to open a new window with width =1200 and height=900 .
I've used the following code
It works perfectly fine in IE , however in Firefox it opens it in a tab... My objective is to actually hide the address toolbar.
Hope someone could really help me out here.
I've got a page with a input text box element within a form .
On the Click of Submit , I would like to open a new window with width =1200 and height=900 .
I've used the following code
<form name='form' action="login_check.php" method="POST" target="foo" onsubmit="window.open('', 'foo', 'width=450,height=300,status=yes,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes')">
It works perfectly fine in IE , however in Firefox it opens it in a tab... My objective is to actually hide the address toolbar.
Hope someone could really help me out here.
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Well you can't exactly control that because even if it opens in a new window for one user another might have their settings to override opening pages in a new window IE., no matter what you do it will open in a new tab. Controlling the user is a bit difficult and unpredictable.
IE will pretty much always open a new window when it encounters the
Why do you want to hide the address bar?
IE will pretty much always open a new window when it encounters the
window.open() method. However, Firefox's action is, as I said before, a bit unpredictable.Why do you want to hide the address bar?
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Originally Posted by ShawnCplus 
Well you can't exactly control that because even if it opens in a new window for one user another might have their settings to override opening pages in a new window IE., no matter what you do it will open in a new tab. Controlling the user is a bit difficult and unpredictable.
IE will pretty much always open a new window when it encounters thewindow.open()method. However, Firefox's action is, as I said before, a bit unpredictable.
Why do you want to hide the address bar?
Well its more or less on grounds of security .. therre are some elements that I am passing through the URL , though its encrypted , I would really not want ppl to have access to it .
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